| Turkey: Plan to Lift Ban on Head Scarves
The ensuing crisis forced Erdogan to call an early general election. The ruling party's landslide victory resurrected Gul's presidential bid and Parliament voted him into the post in August. Secularists unsuccessfully opposed Gul's candidacy partly because his wife wears a head scarf. She challenged Turkey's head scarf ban at the European Court of Human Rights _ after being barred from university in 1998 _ only to withdraw her complaint when her husband became foreign minister. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. .
THE TICKER: Lambeau Bikini Girls discovered
ESPN sideline diva Erin Andrews tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she was so skinny growing up, her nickname was Manute. Bottom line • Birthday boy Ernie Harwell, asked on WXYT's "Motor City Mornings" with Jay Towers and Bill McAllister how it felt being 90: "I live out at Fox Run, and being 90 here is no big deal. ... We've got a couple of ladies who are over 100 who are pretty active. In fact, one of the ladies, when she was 101, we had a Halloween gala here and she came as a hooker." That Ernie. He's still painting pictures with words. The Ticker is compiled from staff reports and news services by STEVE SCHRADER, who can be reached at 313-222-6710 or sschrader@freepress.com. .
Big green ideas for the workplace
Last summer I had a vision of life in a world post-climate change catastrophe. It was around midday on July 20. I was sitting on the 5th floor of an office building in London when the sky suddenly and dramatically turned black, as though night had descended. "I'm just waiting for the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come riding over the rooftops," quipped one colleague, as the brooding clouds seemed to darken still further. And then the heavens opened, dumping two month's rain in just a few hours, leading to the worst flooding in years. Whether last summer's floods had anything to do with global warming is far from certain, but as the torrents rained down on that day last July, what did we all do? We went back to our desks and carried on working.
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